In 1983 into 1984 every artist and band on the planet was massively outdone by one massive blockbuster. The Biggest selling album of all time. Michael Jackson’s Thriller…. The Police, Pink Floyd, Hall and Oates, Styx Foreigner, YES, David Bowie… All had to be second bananas and then some of the biggest albums of that times never got to #1 because of it. I’m talking Van Halen 1984, Def Leppard Pyromania, and Duran Duran Rio to name a few. That’s when a rising superstar named Prince Rogers Nelson who was part Jimi Hendrix, part Little Richard stepped to up the mic and unleashed a batch of songs that would one up Michael Jackson… He would dominate the charts with 24 weeks at #1 with Purple Rain but he’d also do something even Jackson couldn’t do.. Dominate movie theaters. He took a risk with a first time director and a song that had no bass called When Doves Cry… The story is next on professor of rock
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Dig if you will the picture…of a young prodigy born 'Prince Rogers Nelson’. Known by his stage name.. Prince- the lad developed extraordinary skills to become one of the true geniuses of the Rock Era.Prince's innate mastery for artistic innovation defied classification, and broke the confines of race, gender, & musical genre conventionalism.
In 1984, the unparalleled Prince virtuosity was under the gun, when the artist was tasked with composing a track that would be used during a pivotal sequence in the movie Purple Rain. So let me set this us up. It’s early 1984. Prince was coming of his brilliant album 1999 which gave him hist first big hits. it was a celebrated album of 1983, making most all of the year end best album lists. He was critically adored, but not as well know by the masses. Michael Jackson was in the midst of global domination with what would become the biggest selling album in this world’s history with Thriller.
Prince was ready for his closeup and though the press played up the Michael Jackson Prince rivalry the truth is overtaking Jackson wasn’t Prince’s biggest priority, Prince wanted to overtake everybody. Prince against the world and he was primed for his next movie. That said, how could anybody overtake MJ? He’s just won a record 8 Grammys? 7 top ten hits from one album? MTV domination? It was a tall order. Enter the movie Purple Rain.
Purple Rain was crafted to be a quasi autobiographical pic that was loosely based on Prince’s real life. In Prince’s mind, the film was to be his version of The Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night. A sort of embellished version of his own life’s story, although, it is a mystery as to what scenes in the movie were based on actual events. Many of his band member including keyboardist Matt Fink have said that Prince would talk about the conflict prince and his real life life father had when Prince was young, more on that in a moment.
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